back when Hoxton was rendered Hogstown, the area was disreputable

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Reliable authorities say that prostitutes were forbidden the rites of the church so long as they continued in their liberated lifestyles, and were excluded from Christian burial if they were not reconciled to sexual repression before death. I wanted to bring back the image of the dell, the doxie, the bawdy basket, to an area that gentrification was trying to sweep clean. The working girls were being hemmed in. It was risky to work the traditional corners. Hanbury and Commercial Streets. The new middle class residents were getting the cops to clamp down on vice, and this a victimless crime.